Jimmy Reid Archives - RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING

Working-class communist leader elected rector of an ancient Scots university

13th July 202213th July 20223 months ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read 230 Views

Then University of Glasgow student, Dougie Harrison, recall’s Reid’s election fifty-one years ago. In summer 1971, with every active communist

13th July 202213th July 20223 months ago Scottish Left Review 6 min read 231 Views

Poems from Mathew Knights and Dr David McKinstry. Based in Arbroath, Matthew Knights is a writer and creative writing tutor

15th July 202115th July 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 457 Views

David Betteridge recalls how men and women were made on the Clyde into fighting fortresses. Where did the statesmen and

12th January 202112th January 20212 years ago Scottish Left Review 1 min read 1169 Views

The founder of Scottish Left Review, Jimmy Reid, played a leading role in the one of the most successful campaigns

15th November 20193 years ago SLR 6 min read 885 Views

Academics Bill Knox and Alan McKinlay published their biography of Jimmy Reid called Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-built man (Liverpool University

15th November 201915th November 20193 years ago SLR 2 min read 673 Views

Jimmy Reid is often described as ‘the best MP that Scotland has never had’, but I believe that Jimmy was

15th November 20193 years ago SLR 3 min read 692 Views

Catriona Reid and Elizabeth Reid Boulter share their experience of the inspirational annual lecture We are always excited about the

15th July 201916th July 20193 years ago SLR 4 min read 1044 Views

David Watt explains the work of the Socialist Educational Association Scotland Jimmy Reid’s rectorial speech of nearly fifty years ago